Reply #30: The world is not as simple as we would like it to be

[Sinti]

All of your mainstream media is owned by a handful of multinational corporations. Nearly all American people get their information from that same media. When an elected official agrees with what those multinational corporations would like to do, they appear very powerful. When they do not agree, they appear powerless. Media creates the perception for the nation, regardless of who is in office.

There is forward motion into sanity on Cuba. I think it's unkind to disparage righteous efforts. A man has no reason to continue to do the right thing if you're going to bash him anyway. You get from here to there via a series of steps - nothing happens immediately. We've been suffering from this kind of stupid for a long time, it takes a while to get the average citizen to see different approaches to the world as safe to take - mainly because they watch too much damn conglomerate-owned TV.

Americans with Cuban relatives will now be allowed unlimited visits the island, up from once every three years, and unlimited money transfers. The administration will expand the list of items permitted in gift packages to include clothes, hygiene items, seeds, fishing gear and other personal necessities.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/13/barack-obama-cuba-us-travel-restrictions